The Other Thing

   Okay, in case you were wondering what the short haunted house story thing was, I've scrounged it down for you:

   There wasn't anything strange about the house, per se. A two-story Victorian-style summer home, painted in a tacky pink with yellow trimmings. Nothing unusual about that. No, nothing at all. It was the area around the house that was so odd. It was as if the entire world around the house was… warped. Twisted around the house. The lake over which the house looked from the back porch seemed to dimple around that area, an almost imperceptible drop in the level of the water which one could only fully appreciate lying down on the cobble beach looking out towards the lake with one eye closed. The trees twisted like snakes around it, and the sunflowers, usually following the sun, here seemed to actually turn slightly toward the house.
   Scientists have observed a phenomenon by which the light of a star that is behind another object, such as a planet, can still be seen, even though the planet is blocking that star. This is because the gravity of the planet is enough to actually warp light around it, the way light is warped through a glass of water. This house was like that. It had… gravity. 

   ...And that's it. Yeah, that's as far as I got before settling on the other thing.